Unblemished

Katie Rodan

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Description

Acne affects at least 50 million Americans, 80 percent of all people between the ages of 18 and 30, and millions more who are both younger and older. Yet most of us self-medicate -- rushing off to the drugstore to purchase just about anything that promises to help, only to discover nothing really works. Inevitably, we all begin to wonder if the continuing myths and misinformation about acne perpetuated by the media are actually true: Did I wash my face the wrong way? Did I eat too much chocolate? Will that expensive new cream I can't afford really work? Will my face ever look better?

Drs. Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields's Proactiv treatment -- the #1 selling acne-care product in America -- has already brought relief to millions. In Unblemished, they debunk the misconceptions about acne and present a revolutionary guide to zapping zits forever.

After years of studying acne treatment and listening to their patients' concerns, Rodan and Fields formulated The Rodan and Fields Approach, which works in three simple steps. Rather than spot-treating blemishes and pimples reactively, their system -- individualized for every skin type, age, and ethnicity -- treats the entire face using a remarkably simple regimen that really works.

Including illustrations, sidebars, and detailed case studies from the doctors' own files, Unblemished is a blueprint to renew self- confidence and glowing, healthy skin.

From Publishers Weekly

01 March 2004 – Stanford-trained, Bay Area dermatologists Rodan and Fields have demonstrated their over-the-counter acne-treatment products to mass audiences on television, and their telegenic charm carries over into this chatty but deeply knowledgeable and practical book. In defining what acne is (technically, a disease that makes use of bacteria), Rodan and Fields discuss their own skin histories, their families, their friendship and their professional beginnings:"So there we were in 1987, the only women in our practices (all our other colleagues were men), and the women patients flocked to us because we understood what they were going through. Plus we love makeup and skin-care products and pampering and we'd never tell our patients to stop wearing their makeup or stop going for facials if it made them feel better." They worked years on a"spot-kill" product that worked pimple-by-pimple, before realizing that"by treating the full face daily, continuously, with a combination of medications, acne can be stopped at the source." The rest of the book explains their Proactive Solution and Multi-Med Therapy regimens, and maps them onto various demographics, skin-types and problem areas, from"Babies and Children" to"Perimenopausal and Menopausal Women." They are careful to take"Acne's Psychological Aftermath" into account, and offer glossaries of product ingredients and technical terms. Annoying testimonials feel spliced in, but Rodan and Fields write with intelligence and care, and push their products in the clear belief that they work.